Nation
Munsee · munseeMunsee
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In the record
The United States made 5 treaties and agreements that name Munsee as a party, from Treaty of Fort Industry, 1805 to Chippewa of Swan Creek and Black River, and Munsee or Christian at Sauk and Fox Agency, Kansas Territory (1859).
C. C. Royce’s 1899 schedule records 4 cessions of land from Munsee between 1805 and 1839: about 3.3 million acres by this atlas’s estimate, counting overlaps once. 3 of them came through treaties and agreements. The largest was Land of the Chippewa, Delaware and others in Ohio, ceded 1805 (area 53), about 1.9 million acres, ceded under Treaty of Fort Industry, 1805.
The records group it with Delaware (Lenape) and Stockbridge Munsee Community. Today, Stockbridge Munsee Community carries this history, as their own pages or research records say.
Written from the records linked here; open any of them for its sources. This is what the United States’ treaty record says, not the nation’s own account.
The record over time
Circles are land the United States recorded as ceded, sized by acres and colored by how it was taken. Bars are treaties, broken promises, court cases and land returns.
Names
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Other names in English
- MunseeEnglish (language name)
Land recorded as ceded
- Treaty or agreement3 million
- Removal treaty20 thousand
Estimate from Royce’s maps; overlapping cessions counted once. Not a survey or legal measure.
4 cessions. Follow Munsee through the years on the map
Who is doing the work
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Working with these nations
- Stockbridge-Munsee Community (Band of Mohican Indians) Nation government 372 acres on Monument Mountain's north slope (finalized Apr 2025; $2.5M, $2.26M state grant)
Native legal and land defense, nationally
- Native American Rights Fund (NARF) Native-led Litigation and legal advocacy for tribal sovereignty, treaty rights, land and resources Give on their site Website
- NDN Collective (LANDBACK Campaign) Native-led LANDBACK campaign (launched 2020; Mount Rushmore closure and return of Black Hills public lands), Indigenous… Give on their site Website
- Indian Land Tenure Foundation (ILTF) Native-led Land recovery and control by tribes and individual Indian landowners Website
- Decolonizing Wealth Project (Indigenous Earth Fund; California Tribal Land Return) Native-led Reparative philanthropy Give on their site Website
Gifts go straight to each organization; this atlas takes nothing. Listing is not endorsement: how organizations are listed.
Connections
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Party to 5
- Treaty of Fort Industry, 18051805
- Wyandot, Ottawa, Chippewa, Munsee, Delaware, Shawnee, and Potawatomi at Fort Industry on the Miami of the Lake (1805)1805
- Stockbridge and Munsee at Stockbridge, Wisconsin Territory (1839)1839
- Stockbridge and Munsee at Stockbridge, Wisconsin (1856)1856
- Chippewa of Swan Creek and Black River, and Munsee or Christian at Sauk and Fox Agency, Kansas Territory (1859)1859
Land recorded in this nation’s name 4, as named in the 1899 record
- Land of the Chippewa, Delaware and others in Ohio, ceded 1805 (area 53)1805
- Land of the Chippewa, Delaware and others in Ohio, ceded 1805 (area 54)1805
- Land of the Chippewa of Swan creek and Black River and Christian Indians or Munsee in Kansas, recorded 1836 (area 417)1836
- Land of the Munsee residing on Lake Winnebago, WI and Stockbridge residing on Lake Winnebago, WI in Wisconsin, ceded 1839 (area 257)1839
Part of 2
Present-day governments that carry this history 1
Sources
- mohican-nsn.gov/language/reference work
We are unique in the fact that we have two recognized languages, Mohican and Munsee.
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